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My baby doesn't drink milk. What should I do?

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I have a 7 month baby. I have been breast feeding her for 5 months and then I had to go back to work. I started giving her fruits and vegetables and she likes them but there's no way that I can make her drink formula or even breast milk from a bottle. I tried everything, every kind of bottles and cups. The only way that she eats it is mixed with cereals or baby bicuits. I must feed her with a spoon and it's very exhausting doing that 5 times a day, and because she's not much of an eater, our meals last 45 min. What should I do?

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try different temp. if the baby is teething try it slightly chilled, it is soothing for them. don;t worry. as long as she is gaining weight and is generally active then i wouldn't worry too much. also, perhaps she is getting too much solid feed and hence not hungry for milk. you could reduce some amount of solid feed and see. good luck!

I stopped breastfeeding my son at 10 months old and he has now been 4 weeks without a bottle. He pushes all bottles and sippy cups away if milk is in them. I've gotten created with getting dairy in him. He absolutely loves yogurt so i found the Yo plait yogurt drinks for kids. He's been drinking those in place of bottles. Just today I started mixing whole milk with it to get him used to the more liquid version of milk. I too am getting very worn out from handfeeding my son his milk but I know he needs it. Try the yogurt drinks for a while and then slowly thin it out until your child is drinking milk. I'm trying it and it seems to be working.

My 7-month boy has the same problem. We started him on solid when he was 4 months. His milk consumption went way down. Before he was drinking min. 32 oz. So we stopped solid food. He went back to milk. When he was 6 month, we started solid again. Now he is 7 month and has problem with drink again. Breast-fed or bottle-fed. Now he sees bottle coming he pushes it away no matter what's in it. He doesn't want sipping cup either. Even when I breatfeed him, he can't focus more than a minute. We can only nurse him or give him a bottle when he's falling asleep or he's hungry during sleep.

Ok sorry, no offense, but this is so annoying. Nobody ever answers the questions on here. They just re-state the question using their own life examples. Who has an ANSWER? LOL. Again no offense.
My child would not take the bottle at first foreverrr... so i gave him the bottle when he was full. (after nursing him) and then i just let him sit IN FRONT of my (facing me) on my lap (because cradling him was too similar to nursing) and let him happily (not drink) but just held the bottle in his mouth. eventually he started drinking one day. Perhaps you ladies could give that a try. I know how much of a heart ache it can be weaning a child. So many tears... so many tears... but the day he finally drank the bottle.... i cried tears of joy. so just keeeeep trying. that's my advice :)

Hi my baby is the same. He is 7 months and we have just started mix feeding him last month. He doesn't like drinking from the bottle, too. We've tried spoon feeding him with milk, feeding milk from the cap of the bottle, and using sippy cups. Lately, he's getting used to drinking from the sippy cup. If he stops, we remove the cover and feed him straight from the cup; he seems to like that better. Since the baby isn't feeding well, our pedia informed us to stop serving solids and focus on milk (more nutrition from milk than solid foods). When he started to feed around 30oz a day, only when we'll start feeding him solids again. (Tough coz my baby really likes eating solids.) He only feeds around 20-25 oz a day ( i breastfeed directly at night so i just estimate milk intake straight from breast). Don't try to force her to drink from bottle if your baby doesn't like to. Get her used to sippy cups instead. My officemate skipped bottle entirely coz she was also breastfeeding.

I have a similar problem. My 7 month old baby girl refuses the bottle almost entirely. She was breastfed until a month ago when she went on a strike and dried up the little milk that I had. Anyway, in the beginning she was more than ok with the bottle, even with solids. Now she only drinks 12-15 onces of formula (basically early in the morning when half asleep and late at night). Instead of that she will have yogurt with no problem. She has about 12 onces of yogurt/day. I worry if yogurt is a good substitute for formula. Is there anything else I could do to get her to drink formula? I did try different temperatures and think she likes room temperature best. Sippy cup is still a messy business with us, but I will keep persisting with water just so we learn and then switch to formula in it.
Anyone out there figured this out? Thanks in advance!

my 7 month old son is also refusing the bottle. we saw the last week whom said it was okay, seeing has he is now starting on solids, I breastfeed as soon as I get home and straight through the night. We also give him water, and rooibos tea during the day so that he isn't dehydrated. He is very active, and a happy baby. He's stools are also soft which means he isn't constipated or dehydrated and it a good thing. Don't give up on feeding milk either. I also feed him cereals with his milk in it. That way he will also continue having his milk, just in other forms. Good Luck

Transitioning to a care-giver is hard. This might be why baby wont take a bottle. Bfeels betrayed by BF mom? Do it in stages. Have care-giver offer bottle and if baby doesn't take, breastfeed her. Eventually, baby will realise that for some feedings, she is going to get offered a bottle. Slowly add a 2nd bottle feeding, then a 3rd and so on.
Also, try not the be in the same room when bottle is being offered. Baby will know the better alternative is still there. Go in only when you know this attempt has failed.

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